Central Vocational High School - Pendulum Yearbook (Cincinnati, OH)

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JUNIOR TOWN MEETING OF THE AIR On Monday, March lst, I948, algroup of students from Central joined with students of Graphic Arts and East Vocational High School to present a program relating to vocational education in Cincinnati. This was aired on the Junior Town Meeting of the Air over Station WSAI at 8:30 P. M., by transcription. Such topics as proper housing, curricula, trade trends, and employment possibilities were discussed by a selected group of four young people, after which the audience composed of students from the various schools were permitted to ask questions from the floor. The ques- tions were answered by the four students. Picture number one on the opposite page shows Miss Mildred Herbert of East Vocational High School at the micrcphone, while those seated behind her are Cleft to rightl Mr. Fred Harper, of WSAI, John Dawson, Richard Davis, Mr. George Palmer, of WSAI, moderator, and William Edwards. Dawson, Davis, and Edwards are Central students. Picture number two shows Richard Davis at the microphone while Mr. Palmer, John Dawson, Miss Mildred Herbert, and William Edwards stand by. Picture number three shows a question and answer period in which members of the audience asked the four young people various questions bearing on the subjects. Left to right are: Howard Frank, Miss Helen Seel of the Board of Education Central Office, Robert Schumacher, Thomas Wilkerson at the microphone, Harold Johnson, Robert Breitfelder, Don Rinthen, and Ernest Freudeman. Picture number four shows Herman Turner leading in the singing of Central's school song to start the program.

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5 PHILIPPINE EDUCATOR VISITS SCHOOL During the month of February our school was honored by a visit from Mr, Maximo Songco, United Nations fellowship holder ot Manila, Philipp,ne Islands. He was in the United States to study vocational educatien and guidance work in the public schools. Songco, who is in charge ot Welfare Institutions for dependent and delinquent children in Manila, said there has been a rise nt iuvenile delinquency in his homeland since the war but that it now is on the decrease. l-le said that economic trouble was at the root ot most delinquency Out of a population at l8,000,000 in the Philippines, Songco said, 3,500,000 children of school age go to classes regularly even though there is no law forcing them to attend, Mr. Songco told us that the Philippines are proud ot being America's democratic outpost in the East as well as being the only Christian country in that part of the world. Pictured above left to right are Louis Kahn, native of the Philippines and a student at Central, Mr, Songco, and Mr. J. F. Arundel, Director ot Vocational Education in the Cincinnati Public Schools,